Pizza and Beer at the New Parkway Theatre

Earlier today I wrote.

Tonight Geri and I are going to see the recently released faux doc movie of Alfred Hitchcock at the New Parkway Theatre in Oakland. The Parkway was a old movie theatre that was owned by these two hipsters that went belly up for some reason we never understood. It was always busy, and they had a great concept with decent food such as; pizza, nachos, burgers, sandwiches, salads and great local beers on tap. In addition to that they had couches instead of the traditional theatre seats. A very hip relaxed atmosphere.

The price of tickets at the Parkway is much less, 6 or 7 dollars, than Landmark theaters that will cost between 9 or 10 dollars. They even have a day like Wed. night where it's even cheaper, special event for kids, and holidays, and they do benefits fundraisers. The added bonus is your supporting a local business, not a corporation run by stockholders. You can enjoy a beer or some wine, sit on a nice sofa in a comfortable laid back environment, have some decent food made right there, and see a recently released movie.

9:45 PM

Well, I spoke to soon usual. The theatre is very cool. It's an old warehouse, machine shop, auto body shop, turned movie theatre. First thing that happened was they insisted I produce ID. Now, I never carry a wallet, but today I was planning on going somewhere I might need it and just happened to have it.  I mean be fucking serious and she was. No ID no get in. The second fuck up the New Parkway committed was serving what they called food.

We ordered  what was called the margarita pizza. There was not one nuance of a Neapolitan pizza in this mess. The bottom of the crust had little indentations all over it. Mass produced bullshit. Right up there with the worst of the worst. There was an inch of processed mozzarella cheese on it that had no resemblance to a buffalo, no fresh tomatoes and 6 overcooked basil leaves which should have been put on after the pie came out of oven, but alas. That is asking way too much of these people. The people who opened this Parkway were not foodies, and maybe they are looking at the bottom line here.  Should have got the salad, and the pop corn.

I spied the other folks around us and their food looked equally disgusting. The hamburger was pathetic.  I don't give out stars, I give out joints, and I wouldn't even this place a roach. Zero joints, don't eat there period. Life is too short.  I go by the old Michelin rating system of 3 stars, but use marijuana joints instead. Another gimmick of mine.

It's late so I won't go into further details, other than do say, don't eat the food. It's easy to park around there if you get there early, unless it's first Friday, then completely forget it. we parked directly across the street.  The picture screen was full size, and the audio was very good.

The chairs, couches and tables were all comfortable. The beer cost 5 dollars and was good, although there was about a 1/2 inch of emptiness at the top of the pint. Obviously, they're not Irish.

I loved the movie. I mean Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Scarlet Johansson. Some great shots and angles in there.

The price of admission was 6 dollars.

That's it. I'm going to bed. The Fashion Police are on.


Peace,

Make Food/Not War

My one pizza meal for the month a sad disappointment 

Food Consumption for 1-11-13

Breakfast: orange juice, black tea w/lemon & agave, cereal w/soy, fresh pineapple

Lunch: Greens and 2 chicken sausages

Horrible

Snacks: Nuts/raisins

Dinner: Horrible Pizza and good beer at the New Parkway Theatre, Hitchcock

Exercise: 3.5 miles walking

You can't win them all.